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On December 19, 2019, in a verdict by Quezon City RTC, 28 principal respondents, including eight Ampatuan clan members especially the brothers, were convicted for 57 counts of murder, including 31 media workers, and were sentenced with reclusión perpetua without parole; 15 were sentenced to lower prison terms for being accessories to the crime.
Most of these assassinations are attributed to state forces, rebel groups such as the New People's Army or the Abu Sayyaf Group or contract killers working on behalf of politicians (particularly in the context of electoral rivalries), [1] businesspeople and organized crime. For a list of journalists assassinated in the Philippines, see List of ...
Philippine National Police Academy, Silang, Cavite [27] March 10, 2001: Edward Domingo: Military hazing Philippine Military Academy, Baguio Two cadets were convicted of homicide by the Baguio Regional Trial Court for his death, the first time that a civilian court convicted cadets of the Philippine Military Academy. [26] [28] April 7, 2001 ...
Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18, 2017, during the course of the Philippine drug war.. On the evening of August 16, 2017, a 17-year-old Filipino student named Kian Loyd delos Santos was fatally shot by police officers conducting an anti-drug operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
The country also has the highest rate of murder cases in Southeast Asia in 2013, with a rate of 8.8, followed by Thailand. [1] The murder rate in the Philippines reached its peak in 2002 and 2010, with rates of 8.1 (6,553 cases) and 9.5 (8,894 cases). [2]
7 April 1945 Paete, Laguna 58 [29] Pingus (Ping as) Massacre 9 April 1945 Pingus (Ping as), Pakil, Laguna Conflicting reports 41 [46] 32 [47] Under the orders of a captain, 60 Japanese soldiers bound and bayoneted men, women and children Baguio Massacre 13 April 1945 Baguio: 83 [29] Mountain Province Massacres 16 April 1945
However, in accordance with article 127 (1) of the treaty, the withdrawal shall only take effect "one year after the date of receipt of the notification". [32] Two days later, on March 16, the Philippines formally notified the secretary-general of the United Nations of its decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute. [33]
Reporters were banned from the courtroom and relied upon second-hand reports from the Laude family's lawyers for their news articles. [23] Laude's relatives said they had been offered 21 million Philippine pesos (US$468,000) if they agreed to lower the charge from murder to homicide. Julita Cabillan, Laude's mother, said they had rejected the ...